JohnStrangeII

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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
It is very easy to find out whether someone is an expert, as long as you really want to and don't just fool around. For example, an expert on viral diseases will have a long track record of publications in highly acclaimed journals for
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Whether that's likely or not can be estimated by extrapolating case numbers from January back in time into 2019 and using a reasonable estimate for the R0 value without any measures against the spreading of the disease. Even if you don
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I find it hard to believe that a democracy is unable to create a law that gives their voters a day off for voting every four years. Realistically speaking, even half a day off would suffice.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
In the context of HAM radio transmissions, encryption includes voice scrambling methods that we wouldn't nowadays consider secure encryption. There used to be a lot of analogue voice scramblers and voice inversion tools. I think you ca
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
In my opinion, there should be no CSS and no styling at all. The original idea of logical document markup and letting the client render the document is best. It shouldn't be the content provider's business if and how the content i
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I've been thinking about something similar for a while, but kind of disagree with Gemini's scope and implementation. I think that the lack of inline images is too limiting. In my opinion, a good replacement for the WWW should have
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Realistically speaking, if your scenario is that the US government might capture and torture you for encryption keys, then your number 1 priority should be physical security of your communication devices and the people who operate them. You
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I think you're missing the point. It's an opinion piece (aka editorial, or blog post in this case) and not a news article. Of course, you can disagree with his interpretation.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
The article does have an ambiguous "and" in the relevant sentence but it's a bit of a far stretch to get from that to the paraphrase you provide. Here is the literal quote from the article: "Calls to “dominate” marchers
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Although I don't want to say that this post is not insightful at all, I'm always a bit wary of people who place themselves above everyone else and think they know so much better. One thing the author doesn't explain, for inst
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Sorry, I overlooked that passage. The link is in the last paragraph, after the main article. Should have read it more carefully. Anyway, it's a problem.
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
One problem that article does not address is that mist showers with warm water seem like a perfect recipe for breeding Legionnaire Disease , a very dangerous and deadly form of pneumonia. This is especially true if you store the water in a
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
The Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics is not "metaphysics", the theory is principally testable and falsifiable by empirical data. The experiments needed to test it are just not yet feasible. Sean Caroll has written a nic
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
I'm in philosophy, though personally working in formal philosophy, so this is quite different from CS. In my area practically all top journals reject more than 95% of all submissions, and if you get accepted, it takes about a year unti
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by JohnStrangeII 6y ago
Can you recommend any non-mainstream media that are also no "social" and online media outlets? Books would come to my mind, but these do not provide any recent news, so I'm always baffled when someone criticizes "mainstr
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Why not? The name is easy to use and to pronounce and there is zero chance to confuse it with something else in the current context.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
To add to this, what some people apparently don't realize is that those who get mild symptoms and ignore them or don't get tested and quarantined will almost certainly infect others who might die from it. It could be your elderly
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
No, the assessment is realistic. The conference is in about one month. If the coronavirus is transmitted there, which is not unlikely, then it can take several weeks until someone gets symptoms, then another month until that person is no lo
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The problem are the people themselves. I have yesterday tried to persuade a colleague to cancel / postpone a conference in Lisbon with participants from all over Europe, including Milan in Italy. He didn't even take me seriously a
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Most people are also easily flattered and everybody is naturally opinionated. It's hard to keep your ego in check. For example, you see respectable scientists and artists write a popular book, then the next one (because their publisher
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
It's because you can leave your phone at home but not your face.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Is there any "publishing service" for MacOS that takes a percentage of each sale and allows you to provide build scripts and source code, compiles and tests the application and distributes it on the app store? If not, do the Apple
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
There are no automated tests for this, since cryptographic randomness requires unpredictability. A statistical test can only tell you when a random number generator is broken, but no statistical test can tell you whether a random number gen
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I strongly recommend using Sqlite for your own document format. Sqlite is one of the most well-tested pieces of software on earth and ACID-compliant. You can even make it safer than the default if you don't need maximum performance onl
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Yes, I've been programming in Lisp and Racket for the past twenty years and recently switched to Go. The main reason was the availability of a large number of packages and the general tooling for Go. So far, I'm quite happy with m
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
It's going to be dark when you wake up anyway, at least in areas like Canada or Northern Europe where people get up early.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
You're absolutely right. It's going to be dark in winter anyway. The problem is that "sleep experts" have personal opinions and preferences, too, and use their expert status to push their personal agendas.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I find it hard to believe that this could have any significant effect, given all the other negative influences on sleep we already have that seem to be way more drastic. In any case, our whole style of life has shifted from the mornings int
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
> Because of a single experience in 2015? No, because it is basically a tabloid/yellow press version of Fox News and Fox News is already very low quality in terms of actual informativity - too much editorializing, combined with ga
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The one and only time I looked at Breitbart, because it was mentioned online, must have been around 2015 or so. The news site looked like a UK tabloid/yellow press Fox News clone, nothing special really. I then looked at the public com

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